SAP COPA Controlling & Profitability Analysis S/4 HANA
1. Creating Characteristics and Value Fields:
Characteristics: Define the basis for reporting in CO-PA. Examples include product, customer, and region.
Value Fields: Capture the key figures like revenues, costs, or quantities. They store the values you want to analyze.
2. Maintaining an Operating Concern:
The highest organizational unit in CO-PA. It defines which characteristics and value fields are available.
3. Valuation Strategies:
Defines how sales and production values are calculated.
Strategies can be different for standard costing and CO-PA planning.
4. CO-PA Planning - KEPM Framework:
KEPM is a planning framework in CO-PA. It lets you plan revenues, sales quantities, and other value field data.
5. Working with Valuation Methods; Material Cost Estimates:
This deals with the determination of prices for materials, either standard or moving average.
6. Flows of Actual Values:
Explains how real-time data flows into CO-PA from various modules.
7. Transfer of Billing Documents:
Billing documents from SD can be transferred to CO-PA, mapping revenues and sales deductions.
8. Define a PA Transfer Structure for Settlement:
Defines how costs from various sources are transferred to CO-PA.
9. Direct Posting from FI:
Allows financial postings to flow directly into CO-PA.
10. Settlement of Production Variances:
Any variances between planned and actual production costs are settled to CO-PA.
11. Characteristic Derivation:
Automatically derive characteristic values. For instance, determining the product hierarchy based on the product.
12. Top-Down Distribution:
Distribute top-level planning data to more detailed levels.
13. COPA Realignments:
Adjust data in CO-PA, for example, when a customer moves from one sales territory to another.
14. COGS Splitting:
Divide the Cost of Goods Sold based on various criteria, making reporting more detailed.
15. Price Difference Splitting:
Divide variances in production costs among different criteria.
16. CO-PA Reporting:
Extract profitability insights using Report Painter, Profitability Report, and the KE30 report.